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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

Timothy Keller

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Frown God Inconsequential Other Smile
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Come God Invite Stay
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Adversity Important Maintain Midst More Nothing Painful Purpose
In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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Astonished Before Fear Joyful Language Lord Mean Original Sustain Wonderful
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Comfort Fear Fully Greatest Know Love Superficial True Love
…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Fail Grace More Much Need Remember Save Succeed
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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God Grace Hard Humility Kind Muster Need Nothing Spiritual Want
You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Band Believer Christian Family Friend
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Ability Ask Beyond Happy Human Main Make Misdentify People Problem Save Thing
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Anyone Character Down Gospel Look Perfect Strong Understand
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Change Grace Ideas Long never Think

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